Bleak house (1895) (14586117747)

Identifier: bleakhouse00dick (find matches)
Title: Bleak house
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896, ed Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, illus
Subjects: Young women Guardian and ward Illegitimate children Inheritance and succession
Publisher: New York, London, Macmillan and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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nd lost m the interests jof others. Thats something. The suit does not sleep; we wakeit up, we air it, we walk it about. Thats something. Its not allJarndyce, in fact as well as in name. Thats something. Nobodyhas it all his own way now, sir. And thats something, surely. Richard, his face flushing suddenly, strikes the desk with hisj clenched hand. t ^ i. i. ^ Mr. Vholes! If any man had told me, when I first went toJohn Jarndyces house, that he was anything but the disinterestedfriend he seemed —that he was what he has gradually turned outto be —I could have found no words strong enough to repel theslander; I could not have defended him too ardently. So httledid I know of the world ! Whereas, now, I do declare to you thathe becomes to me the embodiment of the suit; that, in place of itsbeing an abstraction, it is John Jarndyce; that the more I suffer,the more indignant I am with him; that every new delay, andevery new disappointment, is only a new injury from John Jarn-dyces hand.
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2l 514 BLEAK HOUSE. No, no, says Vholes. Dont say so. We ought to havepatience, all of us. Besides, I never disparage, sir. I never dis-parage. Mr. Vholes, returns the angry client. You know as wellas I, that he would have strangled the suit if he could. He was not active in it, Mr. Vholes admits, with an appear-ance of reluctance. He certainly was not active in it. Buthowever, but however, he might have had amiable intentions.Who can read the heart, Mr. C ! You can, returns Eichard. I, Mr. 0? Well enough to know what his intentions were. Are, or arenot, our interests conflicting 1 Tell — me — that! says Richard,accompanying his three last words with three raps on his rock oftrust. Mr. 0, returns Vholes, immovable in attitude and never wink-ing his hungry eyes, I should be wanting in my duty as yourprofessional adviser, I should be departing from my fidelity toyour interests, if I represented those interests as identical with theinterests of Mr. Jarndyce. They are no such thing, s